Essentials of Psychology

Lahey has built a superior reputation of student success through a sound system. Open any chapter of this book and you'll see it begins with an advanced organizer that tells the student what the chapter is about and gives him or her a cognitive structure on which to hang new information. Each main section is followed by a review to reinforce this cogntiive structure, a self quiz to check the learning of facts, and critical thinking questions to encourage deep processing. All the subsequent sections are tied together in a similar fashion and the chapter is summarized in a hierarchical outline. In short, he tells them what he is going to tell them, then he tells them, then he tells them what he told them. This edition marks the intoduction of visual reviews, increased technology utilization and a new section on study skills. All of this adds up to a text that presents psychology in a way that instructors can trust and that students can learn from.